Horace Weston's Celebrated Polka

A tune from "The J. E. Brewster Banjoist", 1884. Originally for banjo in the classic style. I play it on a 1930s remake of a 1890s parlor guitar.

This recording is part of a series of posts and recordings about Horace Weston:
http://soupgreens.com/search/horace+weston

I'm a blues or jazz player, not a classical player, so this tune is a little out of my turf and I ended up laying on the rubato too heavy for this to be danceable. But what the hell, nobody polkas any more, right?

YouTube mangled the beginning of the video the first time I uploaded it, so I had to delete it and upload again. All I succeeded in doing was nuking the one rating it had gotten...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• polka
• parlor

[jubadat]

It's nice that you've chosen to arrange a Horace Weston tune for guitar. Try it in polka time, you might enjoy that, too.

[lcsgze]

@jubadat : thanks for stopping by.

What would polka time be like on this tune?  Any suggestions for how to visualize it? I'm not a polka player so this is a bit over my head.

[xttraffic]

love the way you bring sheet music to life. Fantastic thanks for sharing .

[lcsgze]

Thanks! I really appreciate that you get the goal.